09/03/2026
"Every day, our pharmacy team works to keep three kinds of medicine within reach: antimalarials like Coartem, pain relief, and antibiotics - essentials that keep our hospital's care moving without interruption. Having medicines consistently available improves patient outcomes and minimizes resistance," Harvesters' Hospital Pharmacist, Mr. Ojuka Kenneth, explains. "It makes the whole treatment process smooth, with no breaks in the patient flow, and it increases trust in the hospital team and our services."
That trust is hard-won in a hard-to-reach area like ours. When medicines run out, the consequences are immediate and serious, diseases drag on longer than they should, insufficient dosing fuels antimicrobial resistance, and community confidence in our services erodes. When medicines are unaffordable, the picture is even more grim. “That means mortality rate within the community will increase,” Mr. Kenneth says. “If we don’t have them, or have them but they’re too expensive, patients are left with no options at all, and with no hope of cure.”
Some of the most moving moments come with medicines that are rarely available anywhere nearby, anti-rabies treatment and insulin among them. “Many patients have looked all around and haven’t found that particular drug, then they find it with us,” says Mr. Kenneth. “Patients are always so overjoyed when they come and get these readily available with us.”
Behind every full shelf is a system most patients never see, what the pharmacist calls “medicine support”: policies, funding, trained staff, and management working together so that drugs are procured, stored, and reach the people who need them.
Stories like this one are only possible because medicine is on the shelf when a patient needs it. Your support keeps essential medicines like antimalarials, pain relief, and antibiotics stocked for patients in this hard-to-reach region. This keeps hope alive for families who might otherwise have nowhere else to turn.
To help 6,000 vulnerable South Sudanese patients receive the medicine they need this year, visit: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/25thmedicines/
Here are the ways your gift can make a difference for our hospital patients in Yei, South Sudan!
Bless 10 patients with life-changing medicine = $46.80
Bless 100 patients with life-changing medicine = $468
Bless 375 patients (seen in an average week) with life-changing medicine = $1,755